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Stem Cells Provide New Tool for Studying Disease and Identifying ALS Drugs

...ogether toward shared goals. Project A.L.S. prides itself on building productive research teams from elegant parts," said Valerie Estess, director of research for Project A.L.S. "The remarkable interest, curiosity and open-mindedness for new and promising lines of research is emblematic of Project A.L.S.,...

Liver Regeneration may Be Simpler Than Previously Thought

The way the liver renews itself may be simpler than what scientists// had been assuming. A new study provide information on the inner workings of cells from regenerating livers. It could significantly affect the way physicians make livers regrow in patients with liver diseases such...

Breakthrough Discovery- Human Sperms From Bone Marrow

...rstand the biology of how sperm are made. 'That in itself may provide some insight into why things sometimes go wrong and may lead to new approaches to treating male infertility.' The breakthrough findings were presented at an international fertility conference and published in Gamete Biology: Emerging Fr...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...r methodology involves just one ‘snapshot’ that in itself is highly accurate and will be especially beneficial in these locations.” "Modern engineering methods are enabling us to take EEG, an 80-year-old technique for measuring brain activity, and turn it into a cutting-edge tool for diagnosing Alzheimer'...

Doctors Encouraged to Say, “I’m Sorry,” to Patients inUS

... behavior often plays a bigger role than the error itself in patients' decisions to sue. The softer approach has now begun to appear in some medical school courses too. It is drawing interest as national attention has turned to reducing both medical errors and the high cost of malpractice insurance, which...

Alarming Rise of Methamphetamine Use Among Australian Youth

...sequence of methamphetamine abuse. Thus while by itself it is dangerous, it becomes even more so when mixed with other stimulants. And a lot of drug users opt for a cocktail, the report notes. As many as 87 per cent of the drug users also have alcohol along with it. Some 50 per cent even use ecstasy and...

Yoga Helping Fight Autism Down Under

...form of teaching is particularly effective. YITC itself began out of necessity. "We'd developed a reputation as being a place for people with special needs groups. People would call and say, 'Is there any way that you could send a volunteer teacher here? We haven't got any money, but we've got these peo...

Abbott to Subsidize Price of HIV Drug

...yme. When protease is blocked, HIV makes copies of itself that cannot infect new cells. Kaletra is actually two drugs combined into a single capsule: lopinavir and low doses of ritonavir, another protease inhibitor manufactured by Abbott Laboratories. In some parts of the world, these Kaletra tablets ar...

Certain Vitamins may Have Adverse Effects on Human Lifespan

...ide all of the nutrients the body needs to protect itself and combat diseases.' Source-IANS/B...

New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

... permits a chemical reaction to take place without itself being affected. Until recently, however most catalysts would create both enantiomers simultaneously, MacMillan said. In cases where the catalyst can create only the helpful enantiomer -- a process called asymmetric catalysis -- they are often expensi...

Stress Increases Inflammation in Pregnancy, Putting Women at Risk

...oth the mother and the baby. 'Premature labor in itself in not so bad,' Coussons-Read said; rather, 'premature delivery is the problem as it can have lasting effects on infant and child development.' Premature infants can have health problems associated with immature lungs and other body systems, includin...

Ibuprofen Risky for Heart Patients?

...." This is a controversial conclusion. The study itself had not been designed to look at ibuprofen safety, nor has it proved that ibuprofen is harmful to people at high risk of heart disease. But it does provide a clear warning sign that ibuprofen is risky for people who need the blood-clot-reducing eff...

Research to Protect Accident Victims from Epilepsy

...her trauma. As the damaged brain tries to rewire itself -- a crucial process called plasticity -- misfiring circuitry can form. Injured neurons can make new connections in wrong places, or overly excitable connections. Even the brain's genes change the way they work after head injury. "You need the plas...

Health Secretary Apologizes For Failed Online Recruitment System

...,” she conceded. When challenged that the system itself was incompetent, Hewitt replied: “I don’t accept that at all. We are still in the process of ensuring that every junior doctor gets an interview and those interviews have already started - but they haven’t finished - for the job of their first choice...

Promoting Circumcision to Prevent HIV is Misguided and Will Backfire: ICGI

...nificant risk of HIV transmission by the operation itself through the use of contaminated instruments and unsterile conditions according to researchers Deuchert and Gisselquist. Mass circumcision campaigns cannot be carried out with the same aseptic conditions of the scientific experiments, education progra...

Indian Healthcare Sector Will Grow Faster, Says Federal Minister

...//. New avenues of opportunity within healthcare itself could open up as the sector emerges as a significant growth driver, the minister said while addressing medical and public health students and researchers at the Boston University in the US. During 2002, India's health care industry contributed 5 pe...

Concurrent Health Problems Take Heavy Toll on Seniors

...the NIA's Task Force on Comorbidity. The Institute itself also provided support for these articles. Members of the public can purchase this issue of the journal online at www.geron.org for $25. The table of contents is available at http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/content/vol62/issue3/. Source-Eure...

Patient Pays For The Callousness Of Hospital Administration

...mily learnt that the hospital did know in November itself that Jyoti had developed HIV, but withheld the information. They naturally suspected that she contracted it during blood transfusion at the AIIMS. And the TV channel stepped in to investigate. As it happens, under a protocol of the World Health O...

Double-penalty System for Bankrupt Health Trusts Lifted

...ernment believes the NHS will get a chance to pull itself out of the mire as it has announced a contingency fund of 450 million pounds, gathered through cuts in training and public health budgets. David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, admits the system was "unsustainable and inconsistent". But he says...

Hungarian Researchers Claim Cancer Breathalyzer Breakthrough

...ly Nepszabadsag reported Tuesday. The technology itself is not new, and researchers across the world have been working on such a breathalyzer for several years. Ildiko Horvath, the head of university's lung treatment program said, however, that the device could offer a simple and cheap method to detect...

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